Re: Holograms -vs- Augmented Reality

Chris Hind (chind@juno.com)
Mon, 18 Nov 1996 14:58:31 -0800


>> Of course which is why we need a swift physical transportation method as
>> well. We still need to transport goods from place to place don't we?
>
>Yes. We'll need an automagical matrix bus transport infrastructure.

Huh? Whats that?

>>From point to point, to better accomodate diverse web potatoes/wireheads.
>Pale human maggots, limply wriggling in their stuffy dens, catered to by
>briskly crawling insectoid nannybots.

Wow, really positive picture of the future! (sarcasm)

>Six degrees of freedom. A cursor with a Difference: it floats in front of
>you (ideally steered by eye tracker, or, even better, by myopotential
>headband/implant microelectrode array generated output), allowing you to
>intuitively maniplate Au.R. stuff. Will be first used for, and perfected
>on, the bodily disabled.

The next device to strap on Stephen Hawking.